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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    It's really about what looks cool, that's all it is, just pure artistic fantasy. But that's what makes Star Wars cool. That's why it's more fantasy than sci-fi like Star Trek is. There doesn't need to be really any rhyme or reason. Star Wars is a willful suspension of disbelief. In reality...
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    Here are all the reference photos or screenshots that I've been able to find on the next generation TFA X-Wing
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    No problem! I'll tell you it took me a while to figure out how it split, and then I tried it and it worked well. Then I saw the Shapeways models to confirm my ideas, and then I saw that blog. Personally, I love the next generation X-Wing - it still retains the X-Wing, still retains the nose...
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    Just remember, that there are no fan blades in the engines. The engines, according to official Star Wars tech. are fusion engines, not air breathing engines. Even the older X-Wing engines - they weren't air breathing inlets, as a fusion engine don't need to breath air like our traditional air...
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    Someone had created this help, though in reality, the top wedge-like box goes along with the top engine. Also, the new X-Wing is based off of Ralph McQuarrie's art, but with the added vertical split to the wing. Also, there are already 3D printed models of the new X-wing made by...
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    Not according to the teaser trailer: They split along the horizontal like the older X-Wings, but they also split along the vertical. I took a screenshot and increased the contrast as well as removed any color so I could see how they split.
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    haha, cool! Well, I hope someone can use the dimensions and all and see if they can create simpler shapes from it for a paper card model, if so, I'd build it in a heart beat. I just got crazy with the details. I was all set to release it freely, then someone had given me an image of the back...
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    Thanks! or 3D printer! Perhaps someone can take it and at least let it be of use to help make plans for a model, that's kind of what I'm hoping. ;)
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing 3D build for Free.

    Merry Christmas! :) I know this is too complicated to be turned into a paper card model, but if anyone would like to have the 3D model of it, I offer it freely. I just finished my Phase 3 build of this new ship in Cinema 4D. I've exported it as a .OBJ and a .C4D file for free for anyone...
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    TIE fighter build

    oh I'd like that a lot! I think I'll make that my next build if it's out soon enough! Thanks!
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    TIE fighter build

    I love seeing that Thunder Fighter project, I gotta do that. That ship is one of my favorites in the sci-fi universe! Thank you!!
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    TIE fighter build

    Yeah I'm just using Zip Dry on this one (except for when I overlayed the paper card over cardboard inner support in the solar-panel wings-for that I used Tacky Glue smoothed out evely). Love the stuff.
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    TIE fighter build

    hehe, oh definitely. I need to do more modifying. Besides I work as a VFX artist, so I create texture maps all the time. I want to start designing my own models soon.
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    TIE fighter build

    I actually replaced the default front panel that's seen through the front windshield with something I whipped up quickly in Adobe Illustrator.
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    TIE fighter build

    Thanks! I had some fold issues on those REALLY thin areas on the braces, coupled with the cardboard stock support behind that. :( I'll work on glue cleanup too. I'm using that rubber cement-like "Zip Dry" - so I can just rub off any beading caused by the glue. I'll seal the whole thing in a...
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